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Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:34:40 +0400
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>, rml@xxxxxxxxxx, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>> 
>> I received comments and feature requests from Herbert Xu and Jamal Hadi
>> Salim,
>> almost all were successfully resolved.
>
>Please do not construe my involvement in these threads as endorsement
>for this system.

Sure.
I remember you are against it :).

>In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thing is
>meant to solve.

Hmm, what else can I add to my words?
May be checking the size of the code needed to broadcast kobject changes
in kobject_uevent.c for example...
Netlink socket allocation + skb handling against call to cn_netlink_send().

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